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Last week, FLIA marked its 10 Year Anniversary, celebrating a decade of research, partnership, and impact.
While this anniversary marks 10 years of achievement, it also marks the next chapter, as we recently published the FLIA Research Strategy 2026–2029.
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📢 Happening tomorrow, Diasporic Currents and Cultural Flows
FLIA's Creative in Residence, Ama Ofeibea Tetteh, invites members of the West African and Caribbean diaspora to a community archiving workshop.
Read more and register here ⬇️
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50 years ago today, when Black schoolchildren protested the imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction, the state opened fire. Today, the problems facing South Africa’s youth are still defined by race, writes Mlondi Mveli Mdluli.
#LSEInequalitiesBlog
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What if capitalism’s deepest ill is not exploitation or domination, but #alienation?
Chiara Cordelli explores capitalism as a "rule of none" at this year's Brian Barry Memorial Lecture.
📆 Wed 20 May | 6.30-8pm
📍 The Old Theatre, #LSE
Tickets here👇🏾
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We are looking forward to welcoming participants to the Algeria: Historical Struggles and Imagined Utopias Conference at LSE next week.
Explore the final programme, read the abstracts, and register to attend here: https://ow.ly/ysi550Z2MVr
New investigations show that economic migrants from Africa to Russia are being co-opted into the Russian armed forces and forced to fight in Ukraine.
This is a symptom of a global system that leaves migrants vulnerable to exploitation, writes Yohannes Woldemariam @africaatlse.bsky.social
🎊 How Africa Eats is shortlisted for the prestigious BCA African Book of the Year 2026! 🎊
Edited by Professor David Luke, this book is free to read and download via #OpenAccess from the LSE Press website: press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
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An event hosted by the Department of Government featuring renowned political philosopher and public intellectual, Chiara Cordelli.
How can Africa close the infrastructure gap behind its AI ambitions?
Africa is launching national AI strategies, signing partnerships with hyperscalers & seeking a place in the AI value chain.
But strategic infrastructure, especially reliable electricity, will be essential @africaatlse.bsky.social
Joseph Atta-Mensah, warns that the US-Israel war on Iran may feel like a distant conflict to many in Africa, but it poses a direct shock to the continent’s economic future, impacting energy, trade, agriculture, finance, and domestic production systems @africaatlse.bsky.social
"The harassment of women, the circulation of manipulated images, the viral spread of false narratives are not anomalies but features of an attention economy that rewards provocation over truth."
Nneoma F. Kenure for the @africaatlse.bsky.social blog.
Africans are being co-opted into the Russian armed forces and being forced to fight in Ukraine. This is a symptom of a global system that leaves migrants vulnerable to exploitation, writes Yohannes…
While some countries introduce laws and policies to protect women, a lack of political will across Africa and particularly in Nigeria, leaves women vulnerable to online abuse and sexual harassment,…
Africa is launching national AI strategies, signing partnerships with hyperscalers and seeking a place in the AI value chain. Whether African economies can achieve these goals will depend on whether…
Joseph Atta-Mensah, warns that the US-Israel war on Iran may feel like a distant conflict to many in Africa, but it poses a direct shock to the continent’s economic future. At first glance, a…
Black African youth face unemployment rates more than 4x those of their white counterparts - a continuation of apartheid’s structural logic by other means
